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populous adj.人口多的；人口稠密的 (1) 中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。(2) 伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。 Anything that's dense with people can be described as populous, like the country of China or the city of Mumbai or even a crowded airport. Populous is a Latin word that means simply "people." It was adopted by English in the 15th century to mean "full of people." The adjective populous is easy to confuse with the noun populace, "the people who live in a country," especially since they are homonyms, or words that sound exactly the same.

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英 ['pɒpjələs] 美 ['pɑːpjələs] (1) China is the most populous developing country in the world.(2) London is the most populous area of Britain. A populous place is full of people. If you left your cabin in the Maine woods to spend the weekend in New York City, you'd be particularly aware of how populous the city is. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]人口众多的；人口稠密的 A populous country or area has a lot of people living in it.   [usu ADJ n]  [FORMAL 正式]Indonesia, with 216 million people, is the fourth most populous country in the world.有2.16亿人的印度尼西亚是世界第四人口大国。

英语单词	populous
英美音标	英 ['pɒpjələs] 美 ['pɑːpjələs]
中文释义	adj.人口多的；人口稠密的
英语例句	(1) China is the most populous developing country in the world. (2) London is the most populous area of Britain.
中文例句	(1) 中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。 (2) 伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
vocabulary简明	A populous place is full of people. If you left your cabin in the Maine woods to spend the weekend in New York City, you'd be particularly aware of how populous the city is.
vocabulary扩展	Anything that's dense with people can be described as populous, like the country of China or the city of Mumbai or even a crowded airport. Populous is a Latin word that means simply "people." It was adopted by English in the 15th century to mean "full of people." The adjective populous is easy to confuse with the noun populace, "the people who live in a country," especially since they are homonyms, or words that sound exactly the same.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]人口众多的；人口稠密的 A populous country or area has a lot of people living in it. [usu ADJ n] [FORMAL 正式] Indonesia, with 216 million people, is the fourth most populous country in the world. 有2.16亿人的印度尼西亚是世界第四人口大国。

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